Sandwich bag causes Sirotkin DNF on F1 debut

Sergey Sirotkin’s Formula 1 debut lasted just three full laps after a sandwich bag blew onto the traꦚck and got caught in his Willꦓiams car, ultimately causing him to suffer a brake failure that resulted in retirement from the race.

Sirotkin lined up 19th for his first F1 start after a difficult maiden qualifying session, and held position through the opening🔥 few laps.

However, the Russian’s rac🎀e would go no further than Lap 4, with TV cameras showing the Will🅺iams being parked in the run-off area at Turn 16.

Sandwich bag causes Sirotkin DNF on F1 debut

Sergey Sirotkin’s 🐷Formula 1 debut lasted just three full laps after a sandwich bag blew onto the track and got caught in his Williams car, ultimately causing him to suffer a brake failure that resulted in retirement from the race.

Sirotkin lined up 19th♎ for his first F1 start after a difficult maiden qualifying session, and held position through the opening few lap🀅s.

However, the Russian’s race would go no further than Lap 4,✤ with TV cameras showing the Williams being parked in the run-off area at Turn 16.

Speaking to reporters after the race, Sirotkin revealed that a loose sandwich bag had got caught in his right-rear brake duct, causing his car to overheat🐎 and ultimately fail.

“You would not believe how clever it was what happened: there was a plastic sandwich bag that went into the rear-🌃right brake duct, which was lap three or lap four I suppose,” Sirotkin said.

“That caused massive overheating which caused massive temperature spikes and it destroyed all the brak🃏es. At some point I lost the pedal completely - I was lucky there was no wall or nothing there, so the car is still in one piece but I lost the car straight [on].”

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Sirotkin did not mince his words when l🍸ooking back on Williams’ weekend, having struggled through both qualifying and the race on Sun𓃲day.

“To be honest it’s been a very tough weekend. I’ve been around a little while♚ and up to now it all went exactly as I was pretty much expecting to be going,” Sirotkin said.

“But this weekend was really tough. It was really some🌳thing out of what usually happens that we didn’t, or I didn’t, expect. It’s really𓃲 tough.

“I’m really not happy with the weekend. Today I really hoped for a ni🐼ce clean🌸 race to really learn and build some confidence of what happened, but I could not even do this.

“It’s a shame, and a tough moment. But the best thing w𒉰e can do is forget it, learn it and get the experience from it.”

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